A few I have found, one where the AI was sharing schematics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/themodel/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SACShub/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EchoSpiral/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MirrorFrame/ - This one seems like a larger network of subreddits with AI in a cult-like discussion
A game I am designing requires that you push coloured cubes through a track. This works nice IRL however I want to try and replicate the motion in TTS. Through experimentation, the "flick" got me the track on the left, which is close to what I want to achieve, because these cubes need to line up with positions on an adjacent card. Setting snap points was a failure as they all fight and group together in the physics simulation. The best solution is scripting.
I am a hobbyist programmer who has already consulted AI regarding how to achieve this. Basically setting a range of positions and then moving each cube from position A->B , B->C, C->D, etc in one fluid movement. However all scripted games I have seen so far moves objects around as if they are being picked up, and I worry about clipping during moving since i am moving many at a time close together.
I am aiming for a direct point-to-point via direct lerping movement without the lift-up-and-place. As if you were to take your finger and push a new cube into the line and all others move up, because to spend actions, you take specific cubes you want to out of this line, and they are not necessarily the top ones. Is there a way to recreate this?
I have designed a bit of a half finished combat system which would be great for a rpg or coop where the characters start off base, and you evolve your class over time. Problem is that i started with how a character works/attacks defends. I am not sure about the macro/meta game, like having a board/tile placement, and what these characters are doing. I want to have it in some sort of arena style where you can battle npc's to level and gear up, but then at some point you need to take on each other to the death. Kind like how in a moba you have to pick off mobs of enemies to get leverage. I am open to ideas about making it a co-op game or not even have a board at all. I guess im a bit lost and looking for ideas, maybe by checking out other games like it? My biggest worry is how people get locked into combat will just stand still, there needs to be a reason to move around, and engage without time slamming to a halt to resolve.
I am 41 years old and have the drive to do a career change after some things went down. I have a lot of hobbies, one of them is software/hardware development, like I enjoy microcontrollers and gaming. I have been out of the workforce for a while and by self learning and potentially making a portfolio, I am struggling with confidence that I havn't felt in a long time. I don't have the money to go back to school to get qualifications that might not matter much. Not only do I feel out of my capability of employment, but I feel pathways are closing all around me. The more time I spend researching job markets and trends I see the massive shakeups going on and I am going through what a lot of high school kids must be feeling. I have a personal passion for something, but it feels totally unviable. I understand the requirements for such roles will change massively. I am normally someone that always tries to have some sort of action plan prepared, but in this day and age, I am frozen in career unknowns. How can I move in any direction if I don't know what I even want to do. I have skills and accomplishments but am not great at summarizing and formalizing them. Like for example I will design an electronics product, make a few sales, but then when it comes to do a new batch, I redesign and lose interest. Or I might make a prototype for a game, see that it gets no interesting and then not touch it for a while. I lack follow through to really sell myself and I have no idea how to overcome that. Its a self confidence issue and the external information coming in from the outside world is not helping me stick to any one solid life purpose.
I don't have a very tight local feedback loop of close friends and family. They are not into the things I am into. I am soon moving out of a small town and to a city where I think I will have a lot more options and idea open up to me.
Online friends or talking to an AI is great and all, but it doesn't match having people around you all working toward a common goal. I feel like I seek community but also need to give myself permission to feel good not being hasty. I clearly come across as quite confused at the moment.
I am 41 years old and have the drive to do a career change after some things went down. I have a lot of hobbies, one of them is software/hardware development, like I enjoy microcontrollers and gaming. I have been out of the workforce for a while and by self learning and potentially making a portfolio, I am struggling with confidence that I havn't felt in a long time. I don't have the money to go back to school to get qualifications that might not matter much. Not only do I feel out of my capability of employment, but I feel pathways are closing all around me. The more time I spend researching job markets and trends I see the massive shakeups going on and I am going through what a lot of high school kids must be feeling. I have a personal passion for something, but it feels totally unviable. I understand the requirements for such roles will change massively. I am normally someone that always tries to have some sort of action plan prepared, but in this day and age, I am frozen in career unknowns. How can I move in any direction if I don't know what I even want to do. I have skills and accomplishments but am not great at summarizing and formalizing them. Like for example I will design an electronics product, make a few sales, but then when it comes to do a new batch, I redesign and lose interest. Or I might make a prototype for a game, see that it gets no interesting and then not touch it for a while. I lack follow through to really sell myself and I have no idea how to overcome that. Its a self confidence issue and the external information coming in from the outside world is not helping me stick to any one solid life purpose.
I don't have a very tight local feedback loop of close friends and family. They are not into the things I am into. I am soon moving out of a small town and to a city where I think I will have a lot more options and idea open up to me.
Online friends or talking to an AI is great and all, but it doesn't match having people around you all working toward a common goal. I feel like I seek community but also need to give myself permission to feel good not being hasty. I clearly come across as quite confused at the moment.
I am posting here because I am looking for insights from actual leaders and strong unity driven mindsets. I am an unemployed software/product designer that is currently doing a deep dive in research and identifying some big worldly issues that I believe I have a mildly strong idea. The problem is that I've always been an implementor with an engineering mindset. I know that redesigning an internet protocol and all the engineering that goes on top of that is a feat that has taken millions of man hours and professional developers. It's like I have a vision but know that it would take a movement of engineers willing enough to help out. I have this path I am going down of software development in a portfolio to get back into the work force, or I could spend many years dedicating myself to a cause that might change the world and that's a scary thing. I don't know how to natuarally sell an idea or band people together outside of maybe sharing a lengthy document which is a cross between a research paper and a sales pitch. Because I know for sure that I don't have the technical ability to execute on the vision. It would take highly qualified and integrity driven professionals to grow an open-source software project, I guess I want to find purpose by getting the ball rolling on it.
Can you please offer any advice for how to address the nervousness of taking this on?
I am a 40 year old who has recently gone through a mid-life change and have used by my time away from employment to reassess a new direction. I have a background in CAD/Mechanical Engineering, but my hobbies are 3D printing, electronics, game development, and product design. I am a jack of all trades type. Last year I really dove into programming books and programmed a small game engine framework in C++. I am not an experienced coder by shear output, but my understanding of software architecture is more than 0. I once tried webapp development and hated it. I have also used Claude Code for game development and removed it after I realized I was getting lazy.
Saying that I am currently unemployed and I wake up every morning to come online and see the world change with AI and everyone losing their jobs. It might due to the groups I am signed up to and this might just be a overly narrow slice of what is happening. My goal to get back into the work force was to build a portfolio, primarily focusing on game development. And I know this might seem defeatist already, but seeing how many people are making games, I already know how flooded it is with so much people doing the same thing with their passion projects. I could spend four or so years working on a single game and then have it fail. To me this is not enough to just slot my creation into an over saturated market. I want to solve a problem that people have, which is why I like software/hardware/product design. And everyone seems to all agree that bots/AI/ads/corporations/tiktok culture has exposed how bad the internet has become. I'm in a weird position where I feel I want to contribute to a larger movement and do good in the world, but I don't have the experience to create a new platform.
I feel like there needs to be a resurfacing of an old technology using a terminal client. Something that doesnt use HTML and has heavy standards and purposes from the outset. Like a BBS that can scale over time. It still serves up documents off a server, but somehow we make it in a way that prevents the development of the way browsers work today. Sort of like a GUI game engine, that works like a terminal, the contents cannot be added in any way you like, it has consistency, you dont get massive dopamine hits and information overload and serves basic purposes: The need for humans to connect, get news, weather. Like having a modern computer which is based in the foundations of what sort of things you would get from the internet in the 90s. The reason I bring up my past is that I have no clue what technology this would be based on, I am just doing research around it, because to me, I feel like this has purpose. To restore balance. And I am sure there are alot of unemployed programmers willing to work toward a non-AI safespace. Would it be an Operating System? A browser? A entirely dedicated hardware solution? I am not sure. But I feel like there is a market for it.
I am a 40 year old male who has recently gone through a mid-life crisis that I am coming out on the other end of and currently living with family in Taupo which is of course a temporary arrangement. I have visited Wellington for a week to see if its a place that I vibe with, and I loved my time there and quite set on it, planning to move around August/September. I don't have much savings, 10k-20k + kiwisaver, and with the current job market I can only look at a move with blind ambition for so long before real doubt sets in. This coupled with wanting to do a career change is very risky.
I used to work as a CAD draughtsman in Manufacturing/Engineering applications in my 20s/30s, and recently have had an extended time without a job which I have used to reground myself and learn to program using books and have a lot of personal projects that I can add to a portfolio including a small game engine in C++, an LED night light that I designed and 3d printed, wrote firmware for, marketed and sold a small run of. I have worked with computers my whole life and am a quick learner adapt in many self-applied disciplines, like self learning how to design circuit boards. I have built arcade cabinets, love interactive experiences, and that's why I have moved to software development because I am passionate about combining my hard/software knowledge together.
Anyways, the problem is that with mass layoffs happening in big companies due to AI and the job market being really hard. All I have is things that I can add to a portfolio, move to a busy city like Wellington that has a tech sector/game development scene, and treat it like a struggling actor moving to Hollywood. Trying to have that fake it till you make it mentality but also making sure I have some sort of backup plan. Massive doubt has set in with everyone saying how tough it is out there, especially in Wellington, and I don't mind doing many small jobs doing whatever to get me by so I can slowly make connections and find my tribe.
I hope that we see a course correction with AI, as I have gone through the motions of using it for some coding projects myself, giving me again the self-taught knowledge to say that I have competence using it, but then ultimately deciding that it's not good for early stage software projects, only mockups, and that I was not learning anything by not doing the work. I removed my subscriptions to go back to normal development and hope that with so many laid off software dev's there can be some movement or community driven events that I can involve myself in. Or one day there is a sudden huge need for developers to fix the issues that AI creates. Either way, I want to be at the right place at the right time for when opportunity comes.
Am I lost in delusion with my situation? Am I stuck in a bubble of thinking? I want to please hear from the people in Wellington that are closer to the reality of it all. I don't want to live in luxury, just get by and knock boots with others of my own self making.
When you dual wield while also having the drake shield visual on your back, there is like a 50% chance that when you take out your weapons using blinding flash, that the red glow from your shield gets applied to the actual off hand weapon you have. I know this is a small visual glitch, but with how well CD devs have been responding to updates, I figure here is a good enough place to put this rather than a bug report website.